Trail of Tears The Trail of Tears was when the Cherokee Indians were forced to move out from Georgia to Indian Territory in 1838. The Indian Territory is now present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee then knew for sure that they had no real protection from the U.S. Constitution. Along this journey, more than 4,000 Cherokees died from the hard conditions they were facing. Some Indians from other Indian tribes decided to side with the British in the American Revolutionary War in 1775. The Cherokees actually accepted the undeniable presence of Americans, and in the eighteenth century, signed a peaceful policy of a compromise and coexistence (“Trail of Tears”). Between 1819 and 1829, the Cherokee gradually made an independent nation within
